[cobalt-users] RAQ550 and .htaccess cut off at the knees

[Ursula <ursulasays@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to the Cobalt knowledgebase, the latest
updates to the Raq550 have excluded using .htaccess
for system user authentication (auth_pam is gone
completely) - which also makes the webalizer pkgs for
the 550 redundant to a certain extent. They still work
fine without using the .htaccess protection, but
that's hardly an optimal solution. The same problem is
encountered for any other software or website that
relies on system user authentication rather than a
authuserfile, like some phpmyadmin configs, etc.

I'm completely perplexed by this - How could they just
remove functionality like that and ignore the
multitude of consequences?

Someone PLEASE tell me I'm reading all this wrong and
there's a way to get the likes of webalizer, etc
working with .htaccess. re-installing auth_pam may be
an option, but Cobalt seems to believe that is
insecure. Unfortunately, they don't elaborate on that
assertion.



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Ursula


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